mongrel
a dog of mixed or indeterminate breed.
any animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties.
any cross between different things, especially if inharmonious or indiscriminate.
of mixed breed, nature, or origin; of or like a mongrel.
Origin of mongrel
1synonym study For mongrel
Other words for mongrel
Opposites for mongrel
Other words from mongrel
- mon·grel·ism, mon·grel·ness, noun
- mon·grel·ly, adverb
Words Nearby mongrel
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How to use mongrel in a sentence
They are their own mongrel manifestations, and I love that difference.
How Mike Mills Turned Joaquin Phoenix Into the Uncle That’s Going to Make Everyone Cry | Kevin Fallon | November 16, 2021 | The Daily BeastOn the one hand, Wilfred is a pot-smoking, hard-drinking, Matt Damon-loving, mongrel dog.
The dog was a mongrel, maybe 35 pounds, and the kid was trying to balance it in front of him on the frame of his bicycle.
He has called the president of the United States a “subhuman mongrel,” and only Hunter S. Thompson can do that.
Miscegenation would follow and a mongrel race would be the result.
Sam Bungey grew up in London, went to university in Dublin and co-founded mongrel, a monthly magazine about Irish youth culture.
Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!
The Red Year | Louis TracyDiard's mongrel position, which he himself made still more questionable, brought him great troubles.
Juana | Honore de BalzacWith our door ajar we watched the ghastly struggle between the faithful mongrel and the assassin.
A Virginia Scout | Hugh PendexterBut he was such a forlornly muddy mongrel pup, and so eloquent of tail, that I spoke his name on an impulse, and put out my hand.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonAnd a mongrel followed faithfully all the time unnoticed, and wondering, perhaps, at his master.
Over the Sliprails | Henry Lawson
British Dictionary definitions for mongrel
/ (ˈmʌŋɡrəl) /
a plant or animal, esp a dog, of mixed or unknown breeding; a crossbreed or hybrid
taboo a person of mixed race
Australian and NZ sport toughness and physical aggression: a tall southpaw with plenty of mongrel
of mixed origin, breeding, character, etc
Origin of mongrel
1Derived forms of mongrel
- mongrelism, noun
- mongrelly, adjective
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